SATURDAY
28 APRIL

Time: 10:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Location: Tutor Campus Center, Room 227 (The Rosen Family Screening Theatre)

CJRC Inauguration Symposium
RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE: JAPAN AND THE WORLD

Morning Session

10:30 AM – 12:45 PM

“Post 3-11 Religion in Japan”

Susumu Shimazono, Professor, University of Tokyo; former President, Japanese Association for Religious Studies

Respondent: Donald Miller, Professor and Executive Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USC

“Religion in Films and Religious Culture Education in Contemporary Japan”

Nobutaka Inoue, Professor and Director, Institute of Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University

Respondent: Jolyon Thomas, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University

Afternoon Session

1:45 PM – 5:00 PM

“A Place for Religion in the Public Sphere? Some Postwar Japanese Responses to Secularization”

Mark Mullins, Professor, Sophia University; Editor-in-Chief, Monumenta Nipponica

Respondent: David Kyuman Kim, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Connecticut College

“Religious and Citizenship Education in Public Schools in Japan: A Comparison with the United States”

Koichi Mori, Chancellor, Kobe College; Professor Emeritus, Doshisha University

Respondent: Helen Hardacre, E.O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University

This event is free and open to the public. Lunch and Refreshments will be provided!

 Please RSVP here: http://cjrcinaugurationsymposium.eventbrite.com/ or by e-mail to cjrc@dornsife.usc.edu.

Contact Kana Yoshida at cjrc@dornsife.usc.edu if you have any questions. Thank you!